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Title:Passive Resistance in South Africa
Price:AUD$29.70 (about USD$19.50)
Item ID:SB00-0106050
Quantity:1
Publisher:Yale University Press, New Haven, 1957
Edition:First
Illustrator:Photographic
Binding:Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:Good
Yale University Press, 1957, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First, Illustrated By: Photographic

introduction by author, acknowledgements, list of illustrations, three appendices. The text is illustrated with eight black and white photographs. Black coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper, with white coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. "Problems of race and segregation have bought tension and conflict to the Union of South Africa -- as they have in the United States. This is a study of the potent weapon that some of the politically disinherited South African non-whites have turned to: passive resistance." -- from the front fold over panel. Heavy bumping to the back strip edges and light rubbing to the book corners. Age toning to the text block edge. To the lower edges of the book and backstrip edges there is paper adhering, from the dustwrapper, due to moisture. Previous owner's name to the top edge of the front paste-down. How to adequately describe this dustwrapper in its awfulness. Rubbing and chipping, with loss to the dustwrapper corners and to the head and to the heel of the backstrip. Multiple small tears and creasing to both the top and bottom dustwrapper edges. Insects have nibbled along both the front and rear fold over creases causing almost complete detachment of these fold overs from the body of the dustwrapper. The dustwrapper panels have become rubbed, and marked and back dustwrapper panel is also a yellowed and quite grubby. At some stage in the dustwrapper the past it has come in contact with moisture and there was staining to the backstrip region, the lower edge of the dustwrapper, along in the top edge of the fold over panels and along the fold over creases. This is the First USA Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [4], 5 - 256 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Politics & Government; South Africa; Inventory No: 0106050.
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